{"id":52707,"date":"2019-06-15T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=52707"},"modified":"2019-06-14T17:02:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T12:02:20","slug":"provinces-to-allocate-pkr-50-bn-for-agriculture-schemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/provinces-to-allocate-pkr-50-bn-for-agriculture-schemes.html","title":{"rendered":"Provinces to allocate PKR 50 bn for agricultural schemes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The provincial governments have decided to provide a collective sum of PKR 50 billion for the development of agriculture sector during (fiscal year) FY2019-20, a news source reported.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pkr-82-bn-agriculture-plan-introduced.html\">PKR 82 bn agriculture plan introduced<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Minister for National Food Security and Research Mahboob Sultan expressed his views on the matter. He said that the allocation for agriculture sector in the development budget had been reduced by 60%.<\/p>\n<p>He informed that the federal government has decided to provide funds worth PKR 12 billion to provinces for the agriculture sector. Similarly, a five-year agri programme would be launched in consultation with the provincial governments at a cost of PKR 280 billion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/chinese-delegation-interested-to-invest-in-pakistans-agriculture-sector.html\">Chinese delegation interested to invest in Pakistan\u2019s agriculture sector<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additional initiatives include an amount of Rs218bn for improving water productivity by building water infrastructure including small water conservation projects, and PKR 44.8 billion for increasing production of wheat, rice, sugarcane, and cotton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The provincial governments have decided to provide a collective sum of PKR 50 billion for the development of agriculture sector during (fiscal year) FY2019-20, a news source reported. Read: PKR 82 bn agriculture plan introduced Minister for National Food Security and Research Mahboob Sultan expressed his views on the matter. He said that the allocation for agriculture sector in the development budget had been reduced by 60%. He informed that the federal government has decided to provide funds worth PKR 12 billion to provinces for the agriculture sector. Similarly, a five-year agri programme would be launched in consultation with the provincial governments at a cost of PKR 280 billion. Read: Chinese delegation interested to invest in Pakistan\u2019s agriculture sector Additional initiatives include an amount of Rs218bn for improving water productivity by building water infrastructure including small water conservation projects, and PKR 44.8 billion for increasing production of wheat, rice, sugarcane, and cotton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":5722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11897],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-52707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-provinces-to-allocate-pkr-50-bn-for-agriculture-schemes"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Provinces to allocate PKR 50 bn for agricultural schemes - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The provincial governments have decided to provide a collective sum of PKR 50 billion for the development of agriculture sector during (fiscal\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/provinces-to-allocate-pkr-50-bn-for-agriculture-schemes.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Provinces to allocate PKR 50 bn for agricultural schemes - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The provincial governments have decided to provide a collective sum of PKR 50 billion for the development of agriculture sector during (fiscal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/provinces-to-allocate-pkr-50-bn-for-agriculture-schemes.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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